Wager

Captain "Cracker Jack" Kemball of the tea clipper Erl King races Captain Richards of the Seawitch from Shanghai to London. The wager: his daughter's hand in marriage. While the fastest vessels ever built storm across the oceans, Hannah Kemball, who is aboard Erl King, learns this is a game with no rules, that will be won by murder, mayhem and deceit...

  • Author: Richard Woodman
  • Title: Wager
  • First Published by: John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • First Published Format: HC
  • First Published Date: March 1990
  • ISBN-10: 0719547849
  • ISBN-13: 9780719547843

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